Show fa a 0 FOR MN ITEn action taken at t a inocent convention te a it la Is a blot on the church that better provision la is not made tor for su peran fuated ministers the church offers little I 1 0 inducement for a man to enter the ministerial profession excepting what reward he may expect in the hereafter it ought not to be so if sold soldiers leis and public officials aro are to be b pensioned these men mea certainly ought to be cared for as long as they survive and their last days should be sanit ft t of all it Is true that some ot of the larser larger denominations have hare established 9 ft fund for this purpose but the amount allowed to tho the aged servants servant of tha th church Is in most moat cases to BO pitifully Bm om alland accompanied with such auch humiliating mil milia lating ting conditions that tow few care to become recipients of the bounty the amount allotted in the presbyterian church for each of its ita aged and infirm ministers Is SO 30 per annum bu teven this Is allowed only to those who can prove that they have no other means rt of support A movement has been started among the to create a fund of or more a part of it to be used in providing adequate support tor for superannuates in that do de nomination gratifying action in this mutter matter was taken at the recent annual convention ot of tho the massachusetts episcopal diocese A now new canon beldi adopted providing that any clergyman ier gyman who nho has worked in the massachusetts I 1 diocese 25 26 years yean and shall have reached the aze age of 65 shall be entitled upon ex pr pressing a desire to retire from active duties to an annual allowance of 1500 this la Is a fair amount but not a penny too much it la Is accompanied with to no conditions which tend teed to impair the tb telf self respect of those who receive it the tha denominations generally might all curtail the sums which they invest in ave edifices used only for or k a tow bourse louisi each weeland turn tho the amount thus tved toward the support f the faithful mad and deserving men who iava avi given their lives to the lui it t the h churich weekly |